The Language of Word Meaning (Studies in Natural Language Processing)
Contributors: Federica Busa (Editor); Pierrette Bouillon (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780521780483
Subjects: Applications of Computing; Computational linguistics; Semantics (meaning); Language Arts & Disciplines; General; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Semantics; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines : Semantics; Social Science : General; Creativity (Linguistics); Generative grammar
First sentence: Lexical semantics has not yet given a satisfactory answer to a crucial question that implicitly or explicitly has been asked by philosophers of language, computer scientists, linguists, and lexicographers, namely, "What is word meaning?"